EOS ICS Sheds Nightly Tag, Brings Joy to All Xoom Variants

About a month ago, we wrote about Team EOS, and the impressive work they have done for the previously neglected Motorola Xoom tablet. Despite already having many “firsts” under their collective belts thanks to their previous releases, their newest offering brings a couple of new highlights not yet seen in the Xoom Development Community.

Thanks to the laborious efforts of XDA forum members Solarnz, Nusince, Bigrushdog, GPstar, kcrudup, and phokus; the fully open source, AOSP-built, and heavily-modified EOS Ice Cream Sandwich releases have finally shed their nightly tag. Growing up to full release status, this ROM has a few more “firsts” of its own. In addition to offering a nearly fully customizable UI and their usual performance enhancements, they have included user-friendly overclocking support that automatically disables itself in the event that you were a tad over-zealous in your clock speed ambitions. Furthermore, this is the first custom ROM on the platform to support all four variants of the device—no matter if it’s a WiFi-only, 3G GSM, 3G CDMA, or 4G LTE device.

The feature highlights, according to the developers, are as follows:

Tiamat 3.0.5 gpu overclocked kernel

AOSP 4.0.3 based rom

Busybox

USB OTG support

Automatic mounting of FAT32 thumb drives

Automatic mounting of NTFS thumb drives with write support (doesn’t work for everyone)

Enable / Disable stock ICS status bar settings

Enable / Disable EOS ics status bar settings

Enable / Disable Battery percentage text in the status bar

Enable / Disable battery icon in the status bar

Enable / Disable rotation on the lockscreen

User friendly overclocking settings that will detect if the tablet has restarted too often, and disables the overclocking

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Will Verduzco is the Portal Administrator for the XDA-Developers Portal. He has been addicted to mobile technology since the HTC Wizard. But starting with the Nexus One, his gadget love affair shifted to Google’s little green robot. He is also a Johns Hopkins University graduate in neuroscience and is now currently studying to become a physician.

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